Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-11 Thread Luca Deri
Hi all I have started to look at GNUTLS: I think that as you pointed out this is the long run solution. Regards Luca On Sep 11, 2010, at 4:30 PM, jor...@linuxgen.com wrote: > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:55:16PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: >> I am not sure a re-release is really needed, but I'll

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-11 Thread jordan
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:55:16PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote: > I am not sure a re-release is really needed, but I'll leave that for > other debian-legal regulars to comment on. > > It seems to me that there's another problem, though! > > It looks like ntop links with other libraries, some of w

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-10 Thread Francesco Poli
On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:48:25 -0400 jor...@linuxgen.com wrote: [...] > Luca, > > It seems I forgot to CC the bug report as well as Ola on this email. I will > be including debina-legal > on this one as well, as IANAL. > > Thank you for including the exception in your license. There is still a

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-10 Thread jordan
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 09:20:11AM +0200, Luca Deri wrote: > Jordan > I have done the requested changes. I didn't know of GnuTSL, so I might > consider using it in future releases. > > Please let me know if everything is ok now. > > Thanks a lot for all you're doing. > > Regards Luca > > On Se

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-05 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Luca On http://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html I found the following suggestion: "In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders give permission to link the code of portions of this program with the OpenSSL library under certain conditions as described in each

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-04 Thread Luca Deri
Ola/Jordan tell me exactly what I need to write in the license and I will do Thanks Luca On Sep 4, 2010, at 11:42 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hi Luca > > On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:20:22AM +0200, Luca Deri wrote: >> Ola >> first of all please package ntop 4 not 3. > > Ok. I have given over the

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-04 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Luca On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 11:20:22AM +0200, Luca Deri wrote: > Ola > first of all please package ntop 4 not 3. Ok. I have given over the maintenance of ntop to Jordan who is Cc on this email. I think Jordan is working on a new packaged version. However Debian squeeze is "frozen" which mean

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-04 Thread Luca Deri
Ola first of all please package ntop 4 not 3. Then I suggest to compile ntop without SSL support that's optional in ntop. Regards Luca On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > Hi Luca > > I got this bug in Debian. Do you have any good idea on how we can solve > this. Can you release

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-04 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi Luca I got this bug in Debian. Do you have any good idea on how we can solve this. Can you release a special 3.3 version (based on 3.3) that have such an addition to the license? Best regards, // Ola On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:25:11PM -0400, Jordan Metzmeier wrote: > Package: ntop > Version:

Bug#595446: ntop: GPL code links openssl without a license exception

2010-09-03 Thread Jordan Metzmeier
Package: ntop Version: 3:3.3-14 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 2.2.1 This package is GPL but links with openssl without a linking exception in the license. jor...@tesla ~/build/ntop/squeeze/ntop-3.3 $ ldd /usr/sbin/ntop | grep 'ssl' libssl.so.0.9.8 => /usr/lib/i686/cmov/lib